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MARILYN WALLACE HAS DIED
Author and editor Marilyn Wallace has died. Her long-time friend, author Gillian Roberts reports that Wallace died the morning of July 29 after a year of dealing with metastasized breast cancer.
In recent years, Wallace started using a new name as the author of the "gourdmother" mysteries. She was probably best known to mystery readers for her work editing five hugely popular Sisters in Crime anthologies, along with Deadly Allies, which she co-edited with Robert Randisi, which featured paired stories by members of Sisters in Crime and Private Eye Writers of America. Her fiction included three mysteries with Oakland homicide detectives Cruz and Goldstein, and she wrote four non-series books. She had returned to Brooklyn, New York, where she was born, after living in California for some time, and in 2003, as Maggie Bruce, began her new books featuring Lili Marino. The Gourdmother was released in 2005.
Wallace's "Maggie Bruce" website is maggiebruce.com.
[7/29/2006]
ANTHONY AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
BEST MYSTERY NOVEL:
Bloodlines, Jan Burke
Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
Mercy Falls, William Kent Krueger
Red Leaves, Thomas H. Cook
To the Power of Three, Laura Lippman
BEST FIRST MYSTERY:
The Baby Game, Randall Hicks
Die a Little, Megan Abbott
Immoral, Brian Freeman
Officer Down, Theresa Schwegel
Tilt-a-Whirl, Chris Grabenstein
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:
Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Susan McBride,
The James Deans, Reed Farrel Coleman
A Killing Rain, P.J. Parrish
Kiss Her Goodbye, Allan Guthrie
Six Bad Things, Charlie Huston
BEST SHORT STORY:
“Driven to Distraction,” Marcia Talley, Chesapeake Crimes II
“House Rules,” Libby Fischer Hellmann, Murder in Vegas
“Killer Blonde,” Elaine Viets, Drop-Dead Blond
“Misdirection,” Barbara Seranella, Greatest Hits
“There is No Crime on Easter Island,” Nancy Pickard, EQMM
BEST CRITICAL/NONFICTION:
Behind the Mystery, Stuart Kaminsky
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, Melanie Rehak
Heirs of Anthony Boucher, Marv Lachman
New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel, Hallie Ephron
BEST FAN PUBLICATION:
Crimespree Magazine, Jon and Ruth Jordan
Deadly Pleasures, George Easter
Mystery News, Lynn Kaczmarek and Chris Aldrich
Mystery Scene Magazine, Brian Skupin and Kate Stine
Mystery Readers Journal, Janet Rudolph
SPECIAL SERVICE TO THE FIELD:
George Easter, Deadly Pleasures
Janet Rudolph, Mystery Readers International
Maddy Van Hertbruggen, 4 Mystery Addicts
Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
Winners will be announced at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention in Madison, on September 30. for more information on Bouchercon, see www.bouchercon2006.com
[7/24/2006]
MCDERMID WINS CRIME NOVEL AWARD
Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2006 winner was announced this weekend at the opening ceremony of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival. The winner was Val McDermid's THE TORMENT OF OTHERS. She received the award based on votes cast at Ottakar's bookstores throughout the UK, as well as on-line votes at the bookstore website and those received at the festival's website.
Other books short listed for the prize were
STRANGE BLOOD, Lindsay Ashford
ONE LAST BREATH, Stephen Booth
COFFIN TRAIL, Martin Edwards
VARIOUS HAUNTS OF MEN, Susan Hill
FLESHMARKET CLOSE, Ian Rankin
McDermid received £3,000 and a special handmade oak beer cask
[7/22/2006]
MICKEY SPILLANE DEAD AT 88
Mickey Spillane, creator of Mike Hammer and a legend in mystery fiction, has died. According to the New York Times, Spillane died at his home in South Carolina on July 17.
Spillane's first novel I, The Jury appeared in 1947. Critic Anthony Boucher called this work “a spectacularly bad book" but there was no denying the author's popularity. The character of Mike Hammer appeared on film and television. Spillane, according to the Times piece, was clearly aware of his status as a popular writer, and himself referred to his work as “the chewing gum of American literature".
Spillane was born in Brooklyn, trained as a fighter pilot, enlisting in the US Air Force the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and had a long career as a writer, after starting in comics, pulp and slick magazines. Despite there always being some controversy regarding the quality of Spillane's work, he was named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America in 1995.
Details on his survivors, as well as funeral and memorial plans were not yet available.
[7/17/2006]
ACWL ANNOUNCES NEHR AWARD NOMINEES
The American Crime Writers League has announced its nominees for this year's Ellen Nehr Award for Excellence in Mystery Reviewing. The award is given annually to outstanding reviewers of mystery fiction. This year's nominees are:
Dick Adler - Chicago Tribune
Paula L. Wood — Washington Post & LA Times
Adam Woog — Seattle Times
The winner will be announced at Bouchercon in Madison.
[7/03/2006]
THRILLER AWARDS ANNOUNCED
International Thriller Writers announced the winners of their 2006 awards at last weekend's ThrillerFest: They were as follows:
Best Novel:
THE PATRIOT'S CLUB , Christopher Reich (Delacorte Press)
Best First Novel:
IMPROBABLE, Adam Fawer (William Morrow)
Best Paperback Original:
PRIDE RUNS DEEP, R. Cameron Cooke (Jove)
Best Screenplay:
CACHE (Hidden), Michael Haneke
The first ThrillerMaster Award went to Clive Cussler.
[7/03/2006]
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